Amira Jarmakani

Jan 12, 2025 | popularresistance.org | Amira Jarmakani

Above photo: Students at Columbia University protest for divestment during the encampment for Gaza, April 2024. Hoda Sherif. Attacks on Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard at the UC Irvine reflect the repression facing the Palestine campus movement across the country. But like other liberation movements before, activists remain strong and need our support.

Jan 12, 2025 | mondoweiss.net | Amira Jarmakani

This December and January, 50 protestors are facing arraignment for their May 15, 2024 arrests at a University of California Irvine (UCI) protest opposing the Gaza genocide. The hushed arraignments of student protestors and their supporters is just one node in the network of quiet repression spindling across university campuses this past fall, which includes banning students from campus and using punishments to chill student speech.

Nov 20, 2023 | mondoweiss.net | Amira Jarmakani

Columbia University’s recent suspension of its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP) chapters was just the latest examples of the unfolding attacks on free speech when it comes to Palestine in the United States. Among the troubling aspects of this trend is the role outside groups are playing in university actions since October 7, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which has been leading the charge against SJP chapters nationally.

Feb 17, 2023 | truthout.org | Igor Derysh |Chris Walker |Amira Jarmakani |Nadine Naber

Top Fox News executives and hosts privately trashed the false election claims they aired but worried that fact-checking TrumpWorld’s lies would hurt their “stock price” and anger former President Donald Trump, according to texts and emails cited in a bombshell court filing by Dominion Voting Systems, which filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network.